Chantecler Thread!

[hellbender]

Candy, I love the angry bird! Mary

Looks like she want's to set!

 

[Candy442]

Looks like she want's to set!

If it wasn't for the comb on the pic, could even be a white chantecler. However, my chantes are so docile and nice they would not be representative of that angry chick pic.

 

[hellbender]

If it wasn't for the comb on the pic, could even be a white chantecler. However, my chantes are so docile and nice they would not be representative of that angry chick pic.

My first Chanteclers are just turning 3 months old and I'm very impressed with their overall temperament. Several of them want to sit me, some try to preen my goatee. (maybe yank out certain strands).

 

[Candy442]

My first Chanteclers are just turning 3 months old and I'm very impressed with their overall temperament. Several of them want to sit me, some try to preen my goatee. (maybe yank out certain strands).

If those certain strands are the gray ones, I will certainly come to visit and they can get mine! However, my DH would lose what hair he has left under that circumstance. Here is a photo our our three white hens...Pearl, Laverne and Shirley. These ladies don't even challenge my 28 in high rabbit fence! Not sure if that shows how "smart" they are, but they are beautiful birds nonetheless.




The two Buff Chantes, Dusty and Sandie (and their half sister the buff/ameraucana mix girl on the left is Powder)

 

[hellbender]

If those certain strands are the gray ones, I will certainly come to visit and they can get mine! However, my DH would lose what hair he has left under that circumstance. Here is a photo our our three white hens...Pearl, Laverne and Shirley. These ladies don't even challenge my 28 in high rabbit fence! Not sure if that shows how "smart" they are, but they are beautiful birds nonetheless.




The two Buff Chantes, Dusty and Sandie (and their half sister the buff/ameraucana mix girl on the left is Powder)

The hair they purloin is indeed gray!

Your birds certainly are fine looking. I have only White Chanteclers at this point but will almost certainly will get a few Partridge phased ones by next spring. I am a very bad photographer but her are a couple pics of my birds. A few Dark Cornish and Buckeyes thrown in for good measure.

The pics don't show it, but these are surprisingly large chicks for 3 months of age...Not yet a lot of weight but a few of the cockerels stand at about 22 inches from floor to top of their head...based upon what I see from an old wooden yard stick nailed to one of the 2x4s.




EDIT:to add one more pic. These birds are in a grow-out pasture of three acres with two sheds, soon to be three, for the youngsters. They are placed near my work shop so I can keep an eye on them. They love the pasture!

 

[gootziecat]

I just have to ask. Where is Grinder's Switch. It isn't in the WV atlas.

 

[hellbender]

I just have to ask. Where is Grinder's Switch. It isn't in the WV atlas.

Grinder's Switch is a small town near Centerville Tenn. where I visited with friends a few years back. I met these folks when I was initially based in Fort Knox KY and we became friends. I thought I would put it under my avatar for kicks and giggles...You are the first to ask....

Our farm is in an area of WV, not unlike the little burg in Tenn. Located in Randolph co...we have the best of all possibilities...2.5 miles from the hard road and up a graveled road for almost one mile...with heavy gates that are locked, unless we come or go...

The State does not manage or maintain this last one mile section...we do it ourselves and it ends at our back door.

We have the comfort of not being bothered by sales folks and pamphlet wavers (though a couple have made the walk, to their sorrow and perhaps horror,

We're only about 18 miles from Elkins.

Essentially, you and I are neighbors...I used to travel on part of RT 50....hundreds of times, on my way to school in Maryland and later on business... Beautiful county, you have.

 

[gootziecat]

Grinders Switch sounds lovely. I had to chuckle when you mentioned Centerville TN. I lived in Dover (Stewart Co.) before coming here.

 

[Candy442]

The hair they purloin is indeed gray!

Your birds certainly are fine looking. I have only White Chanteclers at this point but will almost certainly will get a few Partridge phased ones by next spring. I am a very bad photographer but her are a couple pics of my birds. A few Dark Cornish and Buckeyes thrown in for good measure.






EDIT:to add one more pic. These birds are in a grow-out pasture of three acres with two sheds, soon to be three, for the youngsters. They are placed near my work shop so I can keep an eye on them. They love the pasture!

Lovely! I love the size of them and your three are very nice at their young age.

Pearl is my first Chantecler and I ended up getting her two sisters several months later from Mary. Pearl was always the first out in the yard and the last one to go in at night. They all absolutely LOVE being out free ranging. However, the one summer someones dog ran into our yard mid afternoon to terrorize our flock, Pearl was found hunkered in semi tall grass by a large brush pile. She was "hiding" but being bright white I could see her an acre away. What I didn't know was if she was still alive since the dog managed to get one of our other hens.
Poor girl, she doesn't know she is bright white and the dog would have most definitely had seen her out there if we didn't intervene. Even our rooster (EE guy, very docile) ran to hide in our small woods behind our home. I walked up to her and she didn't move until I picked her up. Big beautiful girl...lol. Below is a photo of Pearl right after she was integrated into our flock.





As I said...not sure about their smarts ? But she did try to hide.

 

[hellbender]

Grinders Switch sounds lovely. I had to chuckle when you mentioned Centerville TN. I lived in Dover (Stewart Co.) before coming here.